Senate panel cuts $250M from Army's JLTV request

By Ashley Tressel Jason Sherman / May 25, 2018 at 5:56 PM
Lawmakers have proposed a nearly 20 percent cut to the Army's planned procurement of the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle in fiscal year 2019, a surprise blow to one of the service's major modernization efforts just as the Oshkosh-led manufacturing program is poised to accelerate production. A source told Inside Defense before a summary of the Senate Armed Services Committee's mark of the FY-19 defense authorization bill was released that it would include a $250 million cut to JLTV procurement. A...

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